President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Dauda Biu as the Acting Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), following the retirement of Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi said this when he handed over the affairs of the Corps to Biu at the FRSC headquarters on Monday in Abuja. This is contained…
Unknown Gunmen attacked a police station in Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government, Delta State on Sunday, July 24 which result in the killing of three policemen. It was reported that the policemen were responding to a distress call by members of a local vigilante when the gunmen shot them to death. Men of the local…
Abu Sanni, a confessed bandit kingpin, has said that insecurity has become a business everyone benefits from. Sanni said insecurity has become a lucrative business, adding that everyone, including the government, is benefitting from the violent attacks. He said: “Because it has become a business. Everyone wants money. That is why things are deteriorating, from…
For reportedly killing her 38-year-old husband, Barka Dauda, with a knife, 20-year-old housewife Caroline Barka has been detained. Caroline Barka, a local of Angwan Tamiya in the Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, is alleged to have picked a battle with her deceased husband after a disagreement. The argument was said to have ensued…
A staggering seven million persons have registered for their voters card in Lagos state ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The revelation was made by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Lagos state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday. According to him, if the number…
As electrical workers get ready to participate in a Nigeria Labour Congress/Academic Staff Union of Universities solidarity demonstration, Nigerians may be plunged into darkness. Tuesday will see the start of the demonstration. Workers in the power industry who are members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) voiced their opinions in a letter that…
On Monday, relatives of victims of kidnapping aboard trains demonstrated outside the Ministry of Transportation. The demonstrators requested that their family members held captive in the kidnapper’s cave be released. This happened after the terrorists posted a video showing the brutal flogging of the male victims. The families who have been at the ministry since…
Gunmen suspected to be assassins have killed a former State House of Assembly aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Odienyefa Ogbolosingha. The 53-year-old victim, who contested the PDP ticket for the 2023 state Houses of Assembly election, was the younger brother of a former chairman of the Yenagoa Local…
One of the terrorists who escaped from Kuje Prison in Abuja during the invasion on July 5, 2022, according to GIOTV, has issued fresh threats to cause extremely serious damage to Nigeria. After the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) raided Abuja’s Kuje Prison and released over 800 convicts, including all the terrorists held…
A Nigerian woman identified as Mrs Boladale Bamidele, who happens to be the mother of Bolutife, a Cairo-based man burnt to death recently, has broken her silence. Bolutife was burnt by his wife, Ifeoluwa, in Koka, Osun state, on Saturday, said jealousy must have made his son’s wife to set him ablaze. Ifeoluwa had on…